‘Help us out.’ An East Coast city wants to reclaim its 13,000 vacant homes.

On a blustery November morning, Brandon Scott’s small entourage stood on the sidewalk outside The Terraces at Park Heights, a brand-new senior living facility in West Baltimore.

Scott, 42, is in his second term as mayor of Baltimore. He grew up just blocks away and remembers the string of abandoned rowhomes now replaced by the shiny new building.

“It’s always emotional just walking around here, because these are blocks where I lost friends,” he mused…

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